Wed Dec 16, 2020 Ever since ACB joined the Supreme Court, there s been a dramatic reversal of the treatment of religious worship in the coronavirus era. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. New York was the first real pushback, but the SCOTUS majority is using it to carve out more territory for religious freedom in two cases, one involving the High Plains Harvest Church in Colorado, and the other involving a Catholic church and Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey. The Colorado case is interesting because one of the arguments involved the different treatment accorded to Black Lives Matter riots. In addition to these express exemptions, the State has extended the de facto exemption to the Protests. Thousands of protesters marched, chanted, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder for hours on end, all the while ignoring any semblance of social distancing. Far from prohibiting these gatherings, the State actively encouraged them. This is as clear an example of a depa
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with an Essex County priest and a Catholic Ocean County Jewish rabbi over Governor Phil Murphy’s First Amendment violations.
“The application for injunctive relief, presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court, is treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment, and the petition is granted,” explained the unsigned order. “The October 2 order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with instructions to remand to the District Court for further consideration in light of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 592 U. S. (2020).”
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court kicked two decisions by Obama-appointed judges back for “reconsideration” in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. New York. At issue were decisions originating in New Jersey (that would be the state where the governor dines in close quarters in a restaurant while he sends out the
Staats Polizei to break up Jewish funerals) and Colorado, which have established “public health em
ergency” rules that make it easier to shop at Costco or buy liquor than to attend worship. (The judges were Raymond P. Murphy in Colorado and Claire C. Cecchi in New Jersey.) This is how SCOTUSBlog described the cases:
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In this file photo taken on December 7, 2020 The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
JTA For the second time in three weeks, the US Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that state governments may not restrict religious gatherings more strictly than secular ones due to the pandemic.
Responding to an appeal by a New Jersey priest and an Orthodox rabbi, the high court in a unanimous opinion instructed an appellate court to review their claim that the rules laid down by Governor Phil Murphy on limiting religious gatherings to 150 people or 25 percent of a room’s capacity, whichever number is lower, constituted religious discrimination.
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